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The council might have had something to do with it!

If you think you don't have time to read this, then you really need to read this... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

Remember The Tube? - you'll love this. Don't remember The Tube? - you'll love this. eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Wonderfully nostalgic long read from Sam Wonfor🌻 who takes us all the way back to 1983 when Tina Turner made a dazzling 'comeback' on The Tube - filmed live before a Newcastle audience! eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Tish Murtha's work is featured across the artwork and merchandise for Sam Fender's new album People Watching. This, from the vaults of The QT, is well worth a read... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

"From Roker Park, the sensation that shook the world of football rigid," said the narrator in a terribly, terribly English accent. It's not just 'new' news that you get with Eyes & Ears you know... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

Quick-fire regional news round-up plus Gazza, SEND crisis, a Tonali cartoon and, who remembers the Cinzano ads with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter? eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

Dementia is something that many of us encounter. This is a moving account of how it can impact a family, done with the delicate light-touch of an outstanding writer with first-hand experience. It's worth sharing. eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

"If anyone in the North East hasn't yet subscribed to Brian Aitken's brilliant weekly news round-up, get on it! With proper journalist pithiness, it summarises everything you need to know as well as everything you didn't know you needed to know." eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

A fantastic read from Jacqui Hodgson. It's already getting a lot of love

This is now one years old but it's aged really well. Jeff Brown in conversation with simon rushworth. It's just a glorious read eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Do you remember Tudor crisps? Would you have climbed a mountain for them? Lovely bit of nostalgia in this week's Eyes & Ears from Brian Aitken💙 eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

What do Lulu, George Best, Spike Milligan and Geoff Capes have in common? They all had cameos in Super Gran. Great piece of nostalgia from The QT archives here by Sam Wonfor: When Tyne Tees Television was Super-charged

The Hoppings of yesteryear - when you just HAD to go home with a coconut, as Tony Henderson remembers... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Michael Chaplin is a wonderful writer. It's almost exactly a year ago that he took stock of his collection of walking sticks and conjured up this wonderful piece of story-telling for The QT. It's there to be enjoyed! eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Politicised headlines, the cost of NOT dualling the A1, 25 years of Life, our changing high streets, Run Geordie Run's mean feet, Greggs sausage rolls become a cultural icon - and RIP Sir Ian Gibson. eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…

Yes a goldfish too! Think Tony says that came second in his eyes - and there was a man selling coconuts on the way out to spare a few blushes.

Editor Brian Aitken has gone into The QT Vaults and emerged with this brilliant interview David Whetstone carried out with Earl John Charlton ahead of the screening of 'Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son' in Feb 2024 eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Harry Pearson has a way with words and brings a lightness of touch to the trickiest of situations. Editor Brian Aitken💙 has selected this gem from The QT Vaults for this week's weekend read on Eyes & Ears. eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/from-the-qt-…

Reform sitting on a SEND timebomb set to go off in eight months, and they're not happy at not receiving an invite to this year's Gala. Still, this week's Eyes & Ears contains a link to Chris Stewart's wonderful memories of Gala days gone by: eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/eyes-and-ear…